"West End In June 2016, Hobson's Choice opened at The Vaudeville Theatre, running until 10 September 2016.Martin Shaw played Hobson. Hobson's Choice (play) Hobson's Choice is a play by Harold Brighouse, the title taken from the popular expression, Hobson's choice—meaning no choice at all (from Thomas Hobson 1545–1631 who ran a thriving livery stable in Cambridge). The first production was at the Princess Theatre in New York. It then transferred to London on 24 June 1916 at the Apollo Theatre, before moving to the Prince of Wales Theatre on 20 November 1916 (starring Norman McKinnel, as Henry Hobson, Edyth Goodall"
"Harold Brighouse Harold Brighouse (26 July 1882 – 25 July 1958) was an English playwright and author whose best known play is ""Hobson's Choice"". He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists. Harold Brighouse was born in Eccles, Salford, the eldest child of John Southworth Brighouse, a manager in a cotton-spinning firm, and Charlotte Amelia née Harrison, a headmistress. Harold went to a local school, then won a scholarship to Manchester Grammar School. He left school aged 17 and started work as a textile buyer in"
"Many of his plays were one-act pieces; three of the best of these (""The Northerners"", ""Zack"" and ""The Game"") were published together as ""Three Lancashire Plays"" in 1920. All of these plays were set in Lancashire but Brighouse also wrote plays of a different type, such as ""The Oak Settle"" and ""Maid of France"". His most successful play was ""Hobson's Choice"", first produced in 1915 in New York where Payne was working. It was first produced in England in 1916 at the Apollo Theatre, London, where it ran for 246 performances. The play was made into a film, directed by"
"""Tipping the Winner"" (1914). The play was produced by the Longacre Theatre, 220 West 48th Street, in Manhattan. ""Hobson's Choice"" (1916) is a play which starred Pearson, Viola Roach, Whitford Kane and Olive Wilmont Davis. It was staged at Teller's Theatre, 912 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York. In February 1917 Pearson acted in ""The Professor's Love Story"" before an audience at the Savoy Theatre. It was produced by H. B. Irving and featured George Arliss in the role of 'Professor Goodwillie'. Jeanne Eagels, then a very young performer, was among the players. The Belmont Theatre at 121 West 48th Street, New"
"Hobson's Choice (1931 film) Hobson's Choice is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. Based on the play ""Hobson's Choice"" by Harold Brighouse, it follows the tale of a coarse bootshop owner who becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler. It was produced by the leading British company of the time, British International Pictures, at their studios in Elstree. The film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's ""75 Most Wanted"""
"lost films. An earlier silent film version of the play had been released in 1920. Hobson's Choice (1931 film) Hobson's Choice is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. Based on the play ""Hobson's Choice"" by Harold Brighouse, it follows the tale of a coarse bootshop owner who becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler. It was produced by the leading British company of the time, British International Pictures, at their studios in Elstree. The film is missing from the BFI"
"""What I Have Had"" was published in 1953. In the First World War, Brighouse was declared unfit for combat, but joined what later became the Royal Air Force, and was seconded to the Air Ministry Intelligence Staff, where in his spare time he wrote ""Hobson's Choice"". In 1919 he moved to Hampstead, London. In 1958 he collapsed in the Strand and died the following day in Charing Cross Hospital. His estate amounted to just under £14,500. Harold Brighouse Harold Brighouse (26 July 1882 – 25 July 1958) was an English playwright and author whose best known play is ""Hobson's Choice""."
"film. The work consisted of four brief scenes from the play, and a two-minute fragment survives at the EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam. McKinnel did not act on screen again until the mid-1910s, when he began to make further film appearances fitted in around his stage work. He played the title character in the original London production of ""Hobson's Choice"" in 1916. Notably, he appeared as the same character (Nathaniel Jeffcote) in three separate film versions of the same play ""Hindle Wakes"", in 1918 and 1927 silent adaptations and again in 1931 in sound. In 1919 he played Paul Dombey"
"The Choice of Hercules (Handel) The Choice of Hercules (HWV 69) is an oratorio in one act (three scenes) by George Frideric Handel. Handel produced the score between 28 June and 5 July 1750. The first performance was given on 1 March 1751 at the Covent Garden Theatre, London with Cecilia Young as Virtue, Isabella Young as Hercules, and Thomas Lowe as attendant. The libretto is derived from the poem (1743) of Robert Lowth but revised, probably, by Thomas Morell. The story centres on the Choice of Hercules, in which the youthful Hercules must decide between the paths of pleasure"
"Howard Richardson (playwright) Howard Dixon Richardson (December 2, 1917 – December 30, 1984) was an American playwright, best known for the 1945 play ""Dark of the Moon"". Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Richardson graduated in 1938 from the University of North Carolina and then traveled through Europe (1938–39), returning to the University of North Carolina in 1940 for his M.A. From 1940 to 1942, he studied at the University of Iowa, where he wrote the play ""Barbara Allen"" (published in 1942), aka ""Night Song"", inspired by the Scottish-English folk song, ""The Ballad of Barbara Allen"". He served with the Army"
"very near to his old coaching inn, at the junction of Jesus Lane and King Street. The inn is now part of the ""King Street Run"" (a student pub crawl), and has had various changes of name but is today called the Cambridge Brewhouse. Thomas Hobson Thomas Hobson (c. 15441 January 1631), was an English carrier, best known as the origin of the expression Hobson's choice. The term ""Hobson's choice"" originated in the mid-seventeenth century, after Hobson's death. The poet John Milton made Hobson, and the phrase, well known, by satirising him several times in mock epitaphs. Joseph Addison and"
"died at New York's Roosevelt Hospital in 1984. Howard Richardson (playwright) Howard Dixon Richardson (December 2, 1917 – December 30, 1984) was an American playwright, best known for the 1945 play ""Dark of the Moon"". Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Richardson graduated in 1938 from the University of North Carolina and then traveled through Europe (1938–39), returning to the University of North Carolina in 1940 for his M.A. From 1940 to 1942, he studied at the University of Iowa, where he wrote the play ""Barbara Allen"" (published in 1942), aka ""Night Song"", inspired by the Scottish-English folk song, ""The Ballad"
"Thomas Hobson Thomas Hobson (c. 15441 January 1631), was an English carrier, best known as the origin of the expression Hobson's choice. The term ""Hobson's choice"" originated in the mid-seventeenth century, after Hobson's death. The poet John Milton made Hobson, and the phrase, well known, by satirising him several times in mock epitaphs. Joseph Addison and his co-editor Richard Steele commented on Hobson in ""The Spectator"": Hobson arranged the delivery of mail between London and Cambridge up and down the Old North Road, operating a lucrative livery stable outside the gates of St Catharine's College, Cambridge as an innkeeper. When"
"sang. According to Jolson's biographer Michael Freedland, ""Robinson Crusoe, Jr."" was ""the nearest Jolson had yet come to a show with a real plot ... although from opening night on, it was quite plain that the story was not going to interfere with his domination on stage."" Notes Citations Sources Robinson Crusoe, Jr. Robinson Crusoe, Jr. is a musical with a book by Edgar Smith, lyrics by Harold R. Atteridge, and music by Sigmund Romberg and James Hanley. ""Robinson Crusoe, Jr."" was an extravaganza that opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on 17 February 1916. The original Broadway production was"
"Hamilton (play) Hamilton is a 1917 Broadway play about Alexander Hamilton, written by Mary P. Hamlin and George Arliss. It was directed by Dudley Digges and stars Arliss in the title role. It follows the attempts of Hamilton to establish a new financial structure for the United States following the Critical Period and the establishment of a new Constitution in 1787. Mary Hamlin, then a 46-year-old high society woman and mother of four, claimed that playwriting was her ""secret desire."" In 1931, the film ""Alexander Hamilton"" was released. It was based on Hamlin's play and Arliss reprised the title role."
"in 1828. He wrote 25 plays, the most famous of which are ""A Doll's House"" (1879), ""Ghosts"" (1881), ""The Wild Duck"" (1884), and ""Hedda Gabler"" (1890). ""A Doll's House"" and ""Ghosts"" shocked conservatives: Nora's departure in ""A Doll's House"" was viewed as an attack on family and home, while the allusions to venereal disease and sexual misconduct in ""Ghosts"" were considered deeply offensive to standards of public decency. Ibsen refined Scribe's well-made play formula to make it more fitting to the realistic style. He provided a model for writers of the realistic school. In addition, his works ""Rosmersholm"" (1886) and"
"Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. As one of the founders of Modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as ""the father of realism"" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include ""Brand"", ""Peer Gynt"", ""An Enemy of the People"", ""Emperor and Galilean"", ""A Doll's House"", ""Hedda Gabler"", ""Ghosts"", ""The Wild Duck"", ""When We Dead Awaken"", ""Pillars of Society"", ""The Lady from the Sea"", ""Rosmersholm"", ""The Master Builder"", and ""John Gabriel Borkman"". He is the most frequently"
"in 1925, he directed a production of Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" fully using the staging technique he came to describe as ""modified Elizabethan staging"". He left the Chair of the Drama Department in 1928, but Payne returned every year through 1951 (except for the years at Stratford), directing 58 plays at Carnegie between 1914 and 1951, 26 of them by Shakespeare. In 1915, Payne produced the first staging of ""Hobson's Choice"" by Harold Brighouse for The Shubert Organization.In 1916 he directed John Barrymore in his first success in a serious role, in the American premiere of ""Justice"" by John Galsworthy. According to"
"William Gibson (playwright) William Gibson (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008) was an American playwright and novelist. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for ""The Miracle Worker"" in 1959, which he later adapted for the film version in 1962. Gibson graduated from the City College of New York in 1938, and was of Irish, French, German, Dutch and Russian and Greek, ancestry. Gibson's Broadway debut had been with ""Two for the Seesaw"" in 1958, a critically acclaimed two-character play which starred Henry Fonda and, in her own Broadway debut, Anne Bancroft. It was directed by Arthur Penn."
"Gibson published a chronicle of the vicissitudes of rewriting for the sake of this production with a nonfiction book in the following year, ""The Seesaw Log"". His most famous play is ""The Miracle Worker"" (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play after he adapted it from his original 1957 telefilm script. He adapted the work again for the 1962 film version, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay; the same actresses who previously had won Tony Awards for their performances in the stage version, Anne Bancroft and Patty"
"Rosmersholm Rosmersholm () is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen's masterwork, only equalled by ""The Wild Duck"" of 1884. As expressed by the protagonist, Rosmer, the theme of the play is social and political change, in which the traditional ruling classes relinquish their right to impose their ideals on the rest of society, but the action is entirely personal, resting on the conduct of the immoral, or amoral, ""free thinking"" heroine, Rebecca, who sets herself to undermine Rosmer's religious and political beliefs because of his influential"
"plays con-man/thief-turned-FBI consultant Neal Caffrey, working under cover as substitute English teacher Mr. Cooper. During a class, Mr. Cooper has the class close their books and then recites Lord Byron's poem, ""She Walks In Beauty""... Byron was the subject of a 1908 play, ""Byron"", by Alicia Ramsey, and its 1922 film adaptation ""A Prince of Lovers"", in which he was played by Howard Gaye. Tom Stoppard's play ""Arcadia"" revolves around a modern researcher's attempts to find out what made Byron leave the country, while Howard Brenton's play ""Bloody Poetry"" features Byron, in addition to Polidori, the Shelleys and Claire Clairmont."
"marquees and gaudy electric sign over the main entrance, the Princess was elegant inside. A blend of Georgian and French Renaissance styles, the auditorium contained fourteen rows of seats, twelve boxes off the proscenium arch, and was hailed for its excellent acoustics and sight-lines. The decor included neoclassical inspired plasterwork and antique French tapestries hung from the side walls. Originally planned as a venue for short dramatic plays, the early shows at the Princess failed to attract an audience. Even so, some of these plays found success elsewhere. For example, ""Hobson's Choice"" (1915) played well in London the following year"
"existence include ""The Doctor's Dilemma"" (George Bernard Shaw), ""The Master Builder"" (Henrik Ibsen), ""Story of a Soldier"" (music drama, Igor Stravinsky), ""Six Characters in Search of an Author"" (Luigi Pirandello), ""The Mother of Us All"" (opera, Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein), ""Measure for Measure"" (William Shakespeare), ""Livin' the Life"" (musical based on Mark Twain's Mississippi River tales), ""The Good Woman of Szechuan"" (Bertolt Brecht), ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (William Shakespeare), and Anna Christie (Eugene O'Neill). Houghton, frustrated by the role of theatrical producer because it precluded him from directing, left the Phoenix to become a professor at Vassar College,"
"Robert Homburg then his son Hermann Homburg as Homburg & Melrose, Adelaide. until shortly before his death. He was a talented writer, making many contributions to ""The Bulletin"". He wrote several plays, which were produced by the Repertory Theatre, and in 1934 published ""Song and Slapstick"", a collection of verse. He founded the Melrose Prize for literature. His 1917 play ""The Adventures of an Adventuress"" was produced in Adelaide and revived in Melbourne a few years later. He was a connoisseur of fine art and member of the Libraries Board, which administered the Art Gallery. In 1928 he was deputised"
"but cunning and loyal. Newburgh Hamilton (1691–1761), born in Ireland of Scottish descent, produced the comedies ""The Petticoat-Ploter"" (1712) and ""The Doating Lovers"" or ""The Libertine"" (1715). He later wrote the libretto for Handel's ""Samson"" (1743), closely based on John Milton's ""Samson Agonistes"". James Thompson's plays often dealt with the contest between public duty and private feelings, included ""Sophonisba"" (1730), ""Agamemnon"" (1738) and ""Tancrid and Sigismuda"" (1745), the last of which was an international success. David Mallet's (c. 1705–65) ""Eurydice"" (1731) was accused of being a coded Jacobite play and his later work indicates opposition to the Walpole administration. The"
"Command Decision (play) Command Decision was a 1948 play in three acts written by William Wister Haines, and formed the basis for his best-selling novel of the same title. Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and directed by John O'Shaughnessy, it ran for 409 performances from October 1, 1947 to September 18, 1948 at the Fulton Theatre in New York City. Paul Kelly won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play that year, while James Whitmore received the Tony Award for Best Newcomer. Haines, a novelist, served during World War II as an intelligence officer on the staff of the"
"Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ""The Zoo Story"" (1958), ""The Sandbox"" (1959), ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1962), and ""A Delicate Balance"" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights"
"main players are given in the following order: Richard Burbage, Augustine Phillips, John Heminges, Henry Condell, Thomas Pope, William Sly, Christopher Beeston, William Kempe, and John Duke. (Kempe would leave the company the next year, for his famous morris dance from London to Norwich.) In 1599, Jonson wrote what would prove to be a much less popular sequel, ""Every Man out of His Humour"". The play was revived around 1670; Sackville provided a verse epilogue in which Jonson himself appeared as a ghost. David Garrick brought a revised version to the stage in 1751; the changes he made served chiefly"
"famous of which are ""A Doll's House"" (1879), ""Ghosts"" (1881), ""The Wild Duck"" (1884), and ""Hedda Gabler"" (1890). In addition, his works ""Rosmersholm"" (1886) and ""When We Dead Awaken"" (1899) evoke a sense of mysterious forces at work in human destiny, which was to be a major theme of symbolism and the so-called ""Theatre of the Absurd"". After Ibsen, British theatre experienced revitalization with the work of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Galsworthy, William Butler Yeats, and Harley Granville Barker. Unlike most of the gloomy and intensely serious work of their contemporaries, Shaw and Wilde wrote primarily in the"
"are set locally in Northern England, but represent universal aspects of human nature. Other writers who had an influence on him were George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and St John Hankin. A collection of material relating to Houghton, including unpublished plays and photographs, is held in the University of Salford. Stanley Houghton William Stanley Houghton (22 February 1881 – 11 December 1913) was an English playwright. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Harold Brighouse, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists. His best known play is ""Hindle Wakes"" which was written in 1910"
"linking their dramas to actual locations and institutions of their contemporary world. James Shirley's ""Hyde Park"" (1632) is an obvious example, as are Shackerley Marmion's ""Holland's Leaguer"" (1631) and Thomas Nabbes's ""Covent Garden"" (1633) and ""Tottenham Court"" (1634). Several of Brome's other plays, like ""The Weeding of Covent Garden"" (c. 1632–33) and ""The New Academy"" (1636), fall into this category. Ben Jonson's ""Bartholomew Fair"" (1614) stood as a precedent, especially pertinent to Brome, Jonson's self-style acolyte – though other precedents, like ""The Fair Maid of the Exchange"" (c. 1602) and Lording Barry's ""Ram Alley"" (c. 1607), can also be noted."
"John Hankin's ""The Two Mr Wetherbys"", the second act of Sheridan's The Critic, and Ibsen's ""John Gabriel Borkman"". Among the plays McMahon produced from 1911–1917 were ""Candida"", ""Getting Married"", ""Major Barbara"", ""The Doctor's Dilemma"", ""Man and Superman"", ""Fanny's First Play"", ""You Never Can Tell"", and ""Pygmalion"", all by George Bernard Shaw; ""Rosmersholm"" and ""An Enemy of the People"" by Henrik Ibsen; ""The Voysey Inheritance"" and ""The Madras House"" by Granville Barker; ""The Pigeon"", ""Strife"" and ""The Fugitive"" by Galsworthy; ""The Seagull"" by Anton Chekhov; ""The Mate"" by Arthur Schnitzler, and many other plays by leading dramatists of the period, including"